Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1887-03-22
DEATH IN THE WATER.
l. the Element We Drink Decimating the
People: How a Universal Menace to
Health MAY be Disarmed.

Health May he Disarmed.
A few years ago the people in certain
section in one of the leading cities of the
state were prostrated with malignant dis
ease, and upon investigation it was found
that only those who Used wat,r from IA
nous old well were the victims
Professor 5. A. Lattlmore, analyst of the
New York state board of health, upon ana
lying water from this well. found it more
deadly than the city sewage.
The filling up of the Old well stopped the
ravages of the disease.
Not long since the writer noticed while
some men were making an excavation for
n large building, a stratum of dark cOlored
earth running frcm near the surface to hard
pan. There IL took another course toward
a well near at hand. The water from this
well had for years been tainted with the
DRAWINGS from receiving vault. the peco-
latinns of which had discolored the earth
Terrible,
A similar condition OF things exists in
| every village and city where well water Is
| used. and though the filtering which the
| fluids receive in passing through the earth
| may give them clear appearance. yet the
poison aud disease remain, though the
water may look never so clear
Ii is still worse with the farmer, for the
drainage from the barn yard and the slops
, from the kitchen eventually tind their way
into tha family well
The same condition of things exists in
our large cities. whose water supplies are
rivers fed by little streams that carry off the
| filth and drainage from houses. This
water" is eventually drunk by rich and
poor alike with great evil.
Some cautious people resort to the filter
for purifying this water. but even the filter
does not remove this poison. for water of
the most deadly character may pass
through this filter and become clear, Yet the
poison disguised is there.
| They who use filters know that they must
be renewed at regular periods. for even
though they do not take out all the impur.
| ity, they soon become foul.
| Now in like manner the human kidneys
act as filter for the blood. and if they are
filled up with impurities and become foul.
like the filter. all the blood in the system
coursing through them becomes bad. for il
is now a conceded fact that the kidneys are
the chief means whereby the blood is puri-
fed. These organs are Iilled with thousands
Of haiI. like tubes which drain the impuri-
ties from the blood, as the sewer pipes
|
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